2012 Boyer Lectures

The Quiet Revolution: Indigenous People and the Resources Boom - the 53rd Boyer Lectures presented by Professor Marcia Langton, AM.
Leading public figures, selected annually by the ABC board, deliver the Boyer Lectures on topics of special relevance to the Australian community.

The Quiet Revolution: Indigenous People and the Resources Boom - the 53rd Boyer Lectures presented by Professor Marcia Langton, AM.
Leading public figures, selected annually by the ABC board, deliver the Boyer Lectures on topics of special relevance to the Australian community.

The Quiet Revolution: Indigenous People and the Resources Boom - the 53rd Boyer Lectures presented by Professor Marcia Langton, AM.
Leading public figures, selected annually by the ABC board, deliver the Boyer Lectures on topics of special relevance to the Australian community.

Professor Genevieve Bell outlines her proposal for how Australia should build its digital future. This talk was recorded in front of a live audience in Studio 22 at ABC Ultimo on Saturday 21 October, 2017, and features questions from former Boyer lecturer and sociologist Eva Cox and chief commissioner of the Greater Sydney Commission Lucy Turnbull.

Professor Genevieve Bell reveals how new technologies change life, but rarely in the ways we anticipate. How might the origin stories of the typewriter, the robot and electricity equip us to invent the future?

There are examples from around the world, of community and government actions that make a difference to health inequalities. Creating the conditions for individuals to take control over their lives will enable social flourishing of all members of society.

Absence of the nurturing and presence of the harmful are important for the whole of life and are strong contributors to inequalities in adult health. There is much we can do to make things better at both the level of national policy and at the local level supporting families and children.

There are large inequalities in health within and between countries. To explain this we have to look at the social determinants of health—the conditions in which people are born, grow, live work and age; and inequities in power, money and resources.

There are examples from around the world, of community and government actions that make a difference to health inequalities. Creating the conditions for individuals to take control over their lives will enable social flourishing of all members of society.

Absence of the nurturing and presence of the harmful are important for the whole of life and are strong contributors to inequalities in adult health. There is much we can do to make things better at both the level of national policy and at the local level supporting families and children.

There are large inequalities in health within and between countries. To explain this we have to look at the social determinants of health—the conditions in which people are born, grow, live work and age; and inequities in power, money and resources.

Australia now finds itself on the centre stage. Staying there is the challenge. In the final of the 2015 Boyer Lectures series, Dr Michael Fullilove calls for a larger and more ambitious foreign policy; one that ensures that our national interests once again align with our national capabilities.